So if you havent read yet here is round 1 .I paid off my car a long ass time ago and saved up a decent amount of money. But alas I still had the itch to get a mini. For car enthusiasts they know that this is one of the best handling cars out there for the money. So being a crazy impulsive person that I am. I went and test drove one to see how they where and walked off the lot with a 2003 solid black mini cooper S. I love the shit out of this thing best car ive ever driven hands down. It is hyper blasting death rays into my soul at all times. Handles like a dream and is a tid bit faster then the GSR in its prime. I got a great deal on it so the payments are pretty much nothing. Its also way cheaper on insurance for some odd reason. The warranty just ended as its already 4 years old so I plan on adding some mods here soonish. I want to start off with a 15% Alta super charger pully which will add a decent amount of horsies right off the back for pennies. I also plan on getting a mechazoid vinyl sticker and slapping it somewheres on the mini. People either love it or hate it because its different small and deadly. I have been constantly thinking of excuses to go drive around in order to destroy the earth with supercharged laser blasters . So columbus keep an eye out for a solid black mini if you see one run for your gat damn life! USE YOUR CLOACKING DEVICE? HAHAHHAHA I DIDNT THINK SO.

I havent been posting much lately. Mechazoid takes most of my attention these days. So here are some updates for all the spam bots that index my site as there are probably no readers left. I got a new pair of glasses recently some weird lookin metal prada frames they are pretty nifty and semi robotic which is why I bought them. Next step bionic arm. Ive also started Muay Thai classes at the ohio muay thai academy which is hella swank and is oldschool stylie unlike all these new “extreme” gyms that are poppin up left in right. Hopefully this will get me back into shape and turn me into a clinching knee throwing robot like buakaw. Ive also made an effort to start eating healthier and cut back on all the junk food, I havent gained much weight (probably never will) but I feel like I have alot more energy. Also been hangin out with teh bots alot so it doesnt leave much time for ye ole ideji postings. Hopefully I can start slipping some posts here and there from work. Id like also to upgrade to wordpress 2.2 at some point just to get things up to date. Peace suckahs!

Remeber when CG animated movies first started to trickle into mainstream cinema? Toy Story, Ants, Shrek etc the technology was fresh and new and was the hopefull future of animation and pixar was behind it all. Who needs hand drawn artists when we can do it all with a giant rendering farm in a data center in the middle of nowhere? Fast forward to today where just about every animated movie that hits the big screen is a CGI flick about some ghey ass animals doing “funny” things. Disney shot itslef in the balls with death rays when they decided to axe a large percentage of their animation staff in favor of CGI and Pixar studios. Now I do love CG when done right but I am not supportive of its monopolistic approach pwning pencil and paper into oblivion. Ghibli and Miyazaki know where its at and have stuck with the good ole hand drawn style creating lush environments and beautiful worlds that finely detailed characters roam in. Ghibli is the last samurai in an industrial nation so to speak. Theres something about pencil and paper that I just cant put my hand on that CG will never be able to replicate. Ira has been concvincing me recently on another area CG has nuked, mechanical special effects. She states that she misses good ole puppetry, costume and animatronic Jim Hensen type stuffs, CG has wrecked havoc in this area as well. Id like to see a new fantasy based movie using animatronics killer costumes and puppetry with a dash of modern tech. After watching the new TMNT movie I can only wish that they would have just went back into the turtle suits and beat the shit out of shredder one more time around. Atleast I still have anime as a saving grace. although alot of it is moving to CG they seem to be using techniques that create a more hand drawn look and feel such as cell shading and digital pen and paper touchups. I wish CG and handdrawn animation could live in a happy coexisting world and be BFFs and nix the highlander shit CG is currently pulling.

And no its not the iphone. I really dig the iphone and all of its features but when I heard it would not sync with outlook that was a big deal breaker for me as pretty much my whole life is in that shizzle contacts email and calender etc. The hefty pricetag and cingular service contract doesnt help at all either. My old imate Sp3 is on its last legs and its about time for something more up to date. In comes the HTC elf pocket pc smartphone. Its on the low end of the upcoming pocket pc spectrum but it does everything I need it to plus a pinch more and it will be unlocked to any gsm carrier. Doesnt have the greatest storage in the world but the micro sd cards are getting up in size 4gb is almost or already here. In an ideal world id love to have a all in one convergance device so I could get rid of my zune and laptop. Unfortunatly battery life isnt there yet it would suck ass if my phone ran out of battery because I was listening to music or watching a tv show and then I wouldnt be able to get any calls. So the HTC elf is my next step until such a wonder device exists.If interested in the more nerdy aspects check the specs.

So im pretty oldschool when it comes to mp3 players even before the age of ipod I was on the DAP scene repping my street cred in 1998 with a Rio PMP300 which was the first mass marketed mp3 player ever ever, shit didnt even have USB support. After that I bought its successor the Rio 500 which stepped up in the game with USB support and better audio quality this was in 1999. I had an OG first gen ipod and also a 4th gen. I most recently sold my 4th gen and decided to give the Microsoft Zune a shot. So far so good im running it on vista right now and didnt have any problems with the software I actually like it alot more then itunes. However I am dissapointed that it just didnt use the built in sync mechanism that windows media player has and integrate zune marketplace with URGE instead of making me install another software package. The sceen is amazing, landscape video play is sweet and the way it displays album art when playing a song makes me smile.I <3 the UI the clickwheel is nice once you get used to it. The wireless transfer or "squirting" feature works well but I am not down with it adding DRM to my songs that I already had on my PC I wouldnt mind so much if they where purchased from the marketplace but putting it on my own shit is redonkulous. Ive transfered files with a friend and a msft rep here at the jorb and it works like a champ. Although a little bit larger then current gen ipods I do like the casing, I got the black one and it has a slight blue hue to it and is way more resistant to scratches and fingerprints then the ipod. Audio quality is high and sounds a touch better then my old ipod using the same phones. All in all I like it alot but I have a feeling my next upgrade will be a multi use device such as the newley announced iphone or something similiar with phone,pda,dap smushed together in one device.

I hate math mainly because I suck at it. It hasnt been much of a problem really with me sucking at math until recently. Six years without having to use math and now I have an interview at another insurance company that im really interested in and they have a mandatory math test for all potential employees. SUCK! Numbers just kind of go into my head and get all jumbled up and create havoc then I get all anxious because they are going to explode my head and I suck at maths. Anyone have a program I can jack into to learn all maths ever? I need one now please thanks.

Been messing around with some of the crossposting plugins lately as its a pain in the arse to keep multiple blogs up to date. Im not really a fan of most web based blog services but some bots will only read stuff thats on lj/xanga/vox. Now everything I post on ideji will automagicly be posted to my LJ site and also at vox when I setup an account. Check the following plugins if your a lazy ass internet kid.

LJ plugin

Vox Plugin

Xanga Plugin